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Sequential organization of birdsong: relationships with individual quality and fitness.
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- Genetic Composition Is Unrelated to Song Content in a Wild Passerine.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Birdsong as an Indicator of Habitat Structure and Quality.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Close Males Sing With Dissimilar Minimum Frequency and Repertoire Size in a Wild Passerine.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Individual-specific associations between warble song notes and body movements in budgerigar courtship displays.Biology open · 2024Article
- Overcoming bias in the comparison of human language and animal communication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Higher-order sequences of vocal mimicry performed by male Albert's lyrebirds are socially transmitted and enhance acoustic contrast.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Syntax errors do not disrupt acoustic communication in the common cuckoo.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Sequential organization of birdsong: relationships with individual quality and fitness.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Many vocalizing animals produce the discrete elements of their acoustic signals in a specific sequential order, but we know little about the biological relevance of this ordering. For that, we must characterize the degree by which individuals differ in how they organize their signals sequentially and relate these differences to variation in quality and fitness. In this study, we fulfilled these tasks in male collared flycatchers (
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